Typographic form.



P. RIGHARBS.

TYPOGRAPHIG FORM. APPLIGATION FILED J'ULY 25, 1901. RBNEWEUDEU. 2, 1908.

Patented Nov. 29, 19M).

2 SHEETS-SHEET l.

UNITED srnfrns PATENT onirica.

FRANCIS E. RICHARDS, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGN- MENTS, TO AMERICAN TYPOGRAPHIC CORPORATION, A CORPORATION OF ARIZONA.'

TEFFITORY.

To all 107mm it may concern:

Be it known that I, F nANcIs H. RICHARDS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hartford, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Typographic Forms, of which the following is a specification. v

This Invention relates to forms for use 1n printing, and to means for assembling lines of types, or typebars, employedin typographic composition, and which are ar' ranged in columns or articles of a required length, enabling the assembled bars to be quickly and without practical diiliculty fas-' tened together; providing thus a compact and unitary printing-frame which may in the operation of printing be handled with 'the same facility as electrotype-blocks or similar matter not set up in loose condition.

The present invention has :for an object to provide atypographic form embodying a number of typebars all connected as a unit by means of a proper base-plate or carrier with which the several bars are intel-locked, and the invention is further directed to the provision of a large form embodying one or more such carriers 'each provided'with its complement of typebars.

'In thedrawings attached to the present specification, Figure l is a perspective view` of an integral ine of types whose body portion is so formed as to enable the line of t pes to be iuterlocked with a proper carrier.

g. 2 is a transverse sectional view upon a. somewhat enlarged scale of such a line of types as is indicated in Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a perspective view drawn to the saine scale as Fig. l, showing acarricr with which a line of types may be interlocked. Fig. l is a similar view showing a typographic form embodying a number of lines of types assembled and interlocked with a carrier. Fig. 5

is a perspecive view drawn to a somewhat' TYPOGRAPHIC FORM.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Nov, 29, 1910.

Application led July 25, 1901, Serial No; v`.$9,631.'-,qenevved December 2, 1908. Serial No. 465,693.

position plate. Fig. 7 is perspective view 'of a'modiled construction of a constituent part or small form. Fig. 8 is a perspective View of the carrier or base-plate indicated in Fig. 7 v; and Fig. 9 is a similar view of one of the integral lines oftypes set forth in Fig. 7.

Similar characters of reference designate lntegral upper edge 1s provided with inte' grally connected types or characters, although thepresent invention is in no Wise limited 'in its application to the employment of such a particular kind of typebar, as in eueral the same is applicable to the assemb ing and'connecting of a' number of lines of type, each of which lines is provided 'with a body or carrier portion Whether the same is in integral connection with the line of types or not.

Each typebar, designated vin a general way herein in Figs. 1, 2, '4, and 5 by B, is suitably formed `to engage and "be interlocked with a correspondingl formed portion of a base-plate having a esired length, such, for instance, as the length of'the article or column to be set up, more or less. As shown in the figures referred to, each typebar is notched in its lower edge with an under-cut slotb, while the'base-plate, designated by C, is provided with a correspondinglf `Evi ently, the several bars and thebaseformed guide c on its upper face.

plate when so constructed may be engaged one with the other by slidingt-he bars along the plate with their notches 1n engagement with the guide portion on the latter.

In the practlcal use of this' typographie form, embodying the connected base-plate C and assembled typebars B inerlocked therewith, the entire 'structure ill ordinarily be made of the same metal so that the Whole frame'may be Worked over into new plates or new bars by melting or other suitable process of reconversion Without ne;

the plate.

l Instead ofnotching the bars, as indicated in F ig. l, and forming the base-plate with a corresponding rejection, the construction may be reversed? as-it were, and asindi catedY in the relation of the parts in Figs.

a general yway.

7, 8, and 9. In these latter figures each typebar B is rovided with a tenon-like projection b a a ted to lit into the correspending longitu inal groove 6 formed in the base-plate C.

I/Vhn the vdesired number of bars have been assembled and engaged with their baseplate they may be caused to be snugly held- 1n place by peening or otherwise riveting over the lmetal of the bars and plates adjacent. to their engaging edges to prevent the dislodgment of the former, as indicated in by -stippling 2 .in some of the figures. K.

A. further improvement relates to the manl ner of assembling these primary or .small typebar-carrier C 0r C. and especially in cases where thecolumn is" of considerable width, necessitating a baseplate of considerable width, it .may be de` preferably forms on a galleyormain plate or frame, on which the page orA sheet of typographie composition comprising one or more of the primary forms is made up and constitutingV what may be qalled,.a large form. For this purpose a alley-plate B is shown provided on 4its sur ace with a numberof `ooves l2, undercut and with ed grooves t ere is -adaptedto engage a .proper locking-piece 6r key 10 which may be slid lengthwise into place and engaged with a similarly formed groove l1, here shown as extending lengthwise of each base-plate or sirable lto form more than one of; such grooves 11 in thebottom of a b'asefplate, and

` or the correct relation of a number of small forms to the grooves inl the.' galley-plate the latter is grooves sposed at intervals'fqrreceiving the locking pieces or-key's. 'Ihe interval between adjacent rooves may be uniform, or

rality of column Wide form base plates 'orl carriers slidingly locked in place thereon by interlocking grooves and projections respectively and each constituting one memberof a form, and a plurality of type bars constituting another member of said form, one ofV said members having an undercut groove,

cessitating the separation of the bars from of which In' some instances.,

(provided with a plurality ofA such.

Whilethe other member has a corresponding A- projectionor guide itting into the groove.

2. A galley or main plate for making a large form, said plate being 'adapted to have interlockedwith it `a plurality of small forms, each of which comprises a plurality of type barsinterlocked with a base plate whose Width is substantially equal to the length of the typebars. Y y 3. A galley or main plate for making a lar e form, said main plate being'provided wit a number of grooves and locking pieces' or keys for connecting a plurality of small forms to it, each small form comprisin a plurality of -typebars interlooked with a ase plate whose width -is substantially equal to the length of the typebars.

4. A galley or mainplate provided with a number o 'f undercut grooves and locking pieces or keys for connecting a plurality of small forms to it, each small form co1nprising) a plurality vof At-ypeloars i'nterlocliedv with a ase-plate whose Width is. substantially equal to the lengthv of the typebars.

5. In combination with a galley or. main plate adapted to support a number of small forms, locking-pieces for connecting the 4 small forms tothe main or galley-plate, each f orm'and th". galley or main platelraving alnin Agroovles in which the locking-pieces are adapted to' tit and each small form comprising a plurality of typebars interlocked with a' base plate 'whose width is substam tially equal tothe length of the typebars.

.-. 6. The. combination with a galley or main late adapted to supprt a number of small orms, of locking-pieces for connecting the 'small forms to the main or galley-plate, each form and the galley or main plate having alining undercut grooves in which the locking-pieces are adapted to lit andeach small -form com rising aplurality of typebars interlocke witha base plate Whose width is substantially equal to the length of the typebars. y

"1.' A galley or main` plate for making a large form, in combination with a plurality of small forms interlocked with itand' each comprising a v'column wide base plate interlocked with said main of typebars interlocked with the base plate and each -approximating in length the Width ofthe column.

; 8 The 'combinationwitha alley or main plate for a large form having ockingmeans, of a plurality of small forms and each comprising a 1plurality of typeb'ars and a base plate e ua in width to the length of a. typear an inter-locked with the typehars and with the galley or main late.

9. A galley o'r main p ate provided with a numberof undercut grooves, a pluralityof small forms each comprising a baerl plate j having undercut grooves and a. pluralityot' typebars interlockedwith said baseplate,

plate and a plurality the main plate and in thek Smau puifs and eing )ieee 0r keys :in sac undercut s' for oekin the smal forms t0 he lacking these together, and a phua Lgf typebzms carried by and interefcied with 1 L laigge form, the Combinatml with each Smau form plate.' u uan plate provided with a numl FRANCS H. EECIQ wmecu grooves', of n number.' of Witnesses: 'Wma heme. Slm-es each having im un- FRED. l DOLE,

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